Teaching Assistant Resources
- USC Graduate School Handbook for Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and Graduate Assistant Lecturers
- Dornsife College Teaching Assistant Handbook
- USC Center for Excellence in Teaching (CET) TA Resources
Ph.D. Fellowships
For the full list of USC’s competitive fellowships for current Ph.D. students, please see https://graduateschool.usc.edu/fellowships/current-PhD-students/. Aside from these internal fellowships, Ph.D. students are encouraged to apply for relevant fellowships below. For more information, see https://graduateschool.usc.edu/fellowships/external-fellowships/. For many of the nationally competitive awards listed below, the recipients would be eligible for a top off from the graduate school during the award year(s).
- Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) Korean Studies Grants
- Academy Scholars Program, Harvard University Weatherhead Center
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowships
- Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Japan Studies Grant Program
- AAS Korean Studies Grant Program
- Blakemore Freeman Foundation Fellowships for Advanced Asian Language Study
- Chiang Ching-Kuo (CCK) Foundation Doctoral Fellowships
- CCK Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for Republic of China Students Overseas
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
- China Study Program Joint Research Ph.D. Fellowship
- David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships by the National Security Education Program
- Department of State Fulbright Fellowships
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
- Ford Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
- Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowships
- Josephine De Karman Fellowship
- Korea Foundation Fellowship for Korean Language Training
- Korea Foundation Field Research Fellowship
- Korea Foundation Scholarship for Graduate Studies
- Mellon ACLS (American Council of Learned Scholars) Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- Mellon CLIR (Council on Library and Information) Fellowships Dissertation Research in Original Sources
- The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies Doctoral Grant Program
- National Endowmet Humanities (NEH) for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan
- The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
- Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute Junior Fellowships
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC) China-Africa Peace Fellowships
- Soros Fellowships for New Americans
- Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program by the National Academy of Education (NAEd)
- SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop
- SSRC Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship
- Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies